Many people cheating, automated bot to farm drops to synth spheres for Escutcheon

Still waiting on SE to do something about all the automated bot farming of items to desynth into spheres. Bot farming is rampant and should take priority over updates and adjustments to game.

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Originally Posted by VoiceMemo

Still waiting on SE to do something about all the automated bot farming of items to desynth into spheres. Bot farming is rampant and should take priority over updates and adjustments to game.

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It's not just spheres.. It's everything, on every map.

I don't care what anyone says, the majority of people selling Job Points are bots and I'm kind of tired of them hi-jacking/over running CP/Exp areas.

Let's be honest, who would get 1-2100JP in one hit, for someone else. Answer is - they don't. Simply because they aren't even at their computers.

If somebody is willing to obviously bot in an area, and take the risk, with numerous characters that they are paying money for, you have to question where the gil they are generating is actually going, because its got to be worth the risk, right?

I'm guessing to.. not very good causes.

I completely agree with Sirmarki and Voicememo here.

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...497#post617497

Still waiting on an official response from SE. Been over a year since I started reporting automated farming bots in areas that drop items that can be desynthed into spheres, and the same people are still there. No HUMAN player can run the EXACT same route, down to the pixels for hours on end. The bots turn to the mob then start casting magic to kill them, then resume their path.

I spoke to a GM, Verethentus, about a gilseller yell and then mentioned about the automated farming bots and said I should repost here, which I am.

Without timely enforcement of the rules, the RMT have become so brazen. They yell to sell gil without logging off their characters, before they used to do 1 or 2 yells then logoff, now they just stay logged in.

Same goes with automated farming bots, they have no fear of being banned. To me it seems like SE cares more about the monthly service fees than following the rules that they set in the Terms of Service. Either enforce the rules or change the Terms of Service to allow 3rd party.

Still waiting on an official response from SE.

Either enforce the rules or change the Terms of Service to allow 3rd party, since not banning automated farming bots in a timely manner is turning a blind eye to the cheating, which essentially says that 3rd party is ok.

Viable solution: Re-release with HD/remastered graphics on PlayStation 4 with keyboard and mouse USB peripherals and end support and service for PC.

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Originally Posted by TullemoreAsuraFFXI

Viable solution: Re-release with HD/remastered graphics on PlayStation 4 with keyboard and mouse USB peripherals and end support and service for PC.

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That shouldn't and would never happen :)

Banhammer Cometh

https://youtu.be/6g1BRypeg2Y

How complaints sound to SE

https://youtu.be/FC3TVi2af1k

Those Youtube links are somewhat broken as they wouldn't directly play the videos. I do very much appreciate the reference to the LM - 11 Banhammer. The Tom Cruise mock-up was amusing.

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Originally Posted by Sirmarki

It's not just spheres.. It's everything, on every map.

I don't care what anyone says, the majority of people selling Job Points are bots and I'm kind of tired of them hi-jacking/over running CP/Exp areas.

Let's be honest, who would get 1-2100JP in one hit, for someone else. Answer is - they don't. Simply because they aren't even at their computers.

If somebody is willing to obviously bot in an area, and take the risk, with numerous characters that they are paying money for, you have to question where the gil they are generating is actually going, because its got to be worth the risk, right?

I'm guessing to.. not very good causes.

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My advice is transfer servers. Selling job points, among other things, is practically unheard of over here.

What good is a bigger community if it's controlled by bots?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...my-econ-health

The internal menus and interface of FFXI itself needs to be reformed, upgraded and evolved to deter prohibited behavior and RMT profiteering. Gil is being used as a medium for corruption and the linked proposal will at the minimum allow SE to arbitrate player to player commerce with a NPC mediated exchange. Post questions for further explanation if the entire proposal seems confusing, I will clarify.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

My advice is transfer servers. Selling job points, among other things, is practically unheard of over here.

What good is a bigger community if it's controlled by bots?

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So the solution is to keep running away from BOTTERS instead of SE enforcing the RULES THAT THEY MADE?

RULES/LAWS only work if people follow them and are enforced, the people that would consider using bots need to have fear that all their work will be for nothing, that is only way that the rules have any meaning.

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Originally Posted by VoiceMemo

So the solution is to keep running away from BOTTERS instead of SE enforcing the RULES THAT THEY MADE?

RULES/LAWS only work if people follow them and are enforced, the people that would consider using bots need to have fear that all their work will be for nothing, that is only way that the rules have any meaning.

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No, that's not what I'm suggesting, because that certainly needs to happen, but it's an endless battle and RMT will always find ways of circumventing whatever measures SE comes up with. All I'm telling you is the problems you speak of are a rarity on basically every server except asura. Not nonexistent, but much less of an issue. It's also possible that this fact is clouding SE's perception of how bad the problem is on Asura.

If the population of the servers was more even, all players would be getting affected at a more similar rate and then SE might have a more accurate picture. (And I don't feel like a merge has to happen for that, because the game is perfectly playable on these other servers)